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• Making Pretty Things
  on Dec 4, 2016 in Crafts-General Pretty Things Scrapbooking graphic design graphics pretty
  I know, I know.  It’s been too long. I’ve been busy with school, you know, but I’ve decided to make a conscious effort to work on disallowing my job being the all-encompassing end-all in my life.  That’s not to say that I do...
• Music PBL Night
  on Mar 22, 2016 in Music Lessons School cross-curricular education Music music education PBL
  Project Based Learning (PBL) is a big deal in my district.  All teachers are expected to do at least one project each year.  This was my first year doing a project and I chose the Science of Sound.  Thankfully, I didn’t have to create the en...
• Curriculum Mapping: Cohesive Planning for Effective Instruction; Part 4: Building Your Lessons
  on Mar 21, 2016 in Music Lessons Organization School curriculum education Music music education
  This is Part 4 in the Curriculum Mapping series.  Check out Part 1: Curriculum Evolution, Part 2: The Nitty-Gritty Details, and Part 3: The Big Picture. In Part 3, I discussed using your district’s yearly calendar to begin to map out your year...
• Curriculum Mapping: Cohesive Planning for Effective Instruction; Part 3: The Big Picture
  on Mar 20, 2016 in Music Lessons Organization School Technology curriculum education Music music education
  This is Part 3 of the Curriculum Mapping series.  Check out Part 1: Curriculum Evolution and Part 2: The Nitty-Gritty Details. In Part 2, we looked at the details such as disassembling the standards, creating objectives, and sorting those standards/...
• Curriculum Mapping: Cohesive Planning for Effective Instruction; Part 2: The Nitty-Gritty Details
  on Mar 19, 2016 in Music Lessons Organization School Technology curriculum education Music music education
  This is a continuation of my Curriculum Mapping series from TMEA 2016.  If you missed Part 1: Curriculum Evolution, click here. This is Part 2: The Nitty Gritty Details and that is exactly what we’re going to dive into.  Note: this is the fir...
• Curriculum Mapping: Cohesive Planning for Effective Instruction; Part 1: Curriculum Evolution
  on Mar 18, 2016 in Uncategorized
  Back in February, I presented on this topic at the Texas Music Educator’s Association annual convention.  I’m posting an overview of the presentation here for my faithful readers. :) But first……… I am no master musician...
• Product Review:4-Beat Rhythm Blocks
  on Feb 21, 2016 in Music Lessons School music classroom music education product review rhythm
  Kelly Parrish recently asked me to review her 4-Beat Rhythm Blocks (Connected) and she was so generous!  She sent me a class set of these blocks with quarter note, quarter rest, beamed eighth notes, and sixteenth notes. Now, I work at a 1:1 school...
• Zaption Update
  on Feb 7, 2016 in Classroom Management School Technology computer ipads technology video youtube Zaption
  Due to the upcoming TMEA/TI:ME Convention this week, I updated my Zaption presentation.  I thought “If I’m going to do a presentation about an interactive learning tool, I should probably use that interactive learning tool.” Click...
• Cara’s Favorite Sites for Graphics
  on Jan 15, 2016 in Crafts-General Scrapbooking Technology fonts graphic design graphics
  I have a pretty distinct style when it comes to what I create.  My stuff doesn’t usually look like other people’s creations.  I think part of that has to be the graphics I use so I decided to share my favorite sites for purchasing graph...
• Do You Youtube? Sites & Tools to Enhance Your Youtube Experience
  on Dec 9, 2015 in Music Lessons Technology advertisements education Music youtube
  I love Youtube but it really isn’t suitable for teachers to use on the fly.  Luckily, the above video and side videos doesn’t have anything inappropriate but that rarely is the case for me.  For example, my students wanted to see a comm...

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